SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Just in time for Halloween, one of the biggest, most active web-spinning spiders in San Diego has come back out to play. Orb weaver spiders, one of the most common families of ...

I’ve found this beauty the last few years waiting for her dinner on her web woven on my Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia). Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae and are the most ...

Spring is the time when many spiders emerge from their winter hiding places and start doing what they do best: spinning webs. This is when you may spot the classic cobwebs in your yard or garden.

It's the time of year when the orb-weaver spider's appearance is more common in the Wilmington area. The orb-weaver spider might not be popular or wanted around by many people because of the massive ...

There are more than 50,000 species of spiders in the world, of all different sizes. They live in a wide range of habitats and exhibit many different fascinating behaviors, from spiders that carry ...

This essay is part of Finding Beauty, a series on discovering joy in the unexpected. When I was a teenager, my family lived deep in the hills of a tiny country village overlooking Montego Bay. It was ...

Once orb-weaver spiders ensnare male fireflies in their webs, they turn the doomed insects into bait, using their telltale flashing to lure in more meals. In a stretch of farmland in Hubei Province, ...

Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...

A Costa Rican pirate spider lives up to the family name: It tricks closely related orb weaver spiders into “walking the plank,” right to their doom. Like any respectable pirate, pirate spiders have an ...